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Reddit user admits to AI-generated impersonation of 'Aroace Music' for social experiment

A Reddit user on r/SMRTRabak admitted to creating an account to impersonate 'Aroace Music' and using AI to generate posts, claiming it was a 'social experiment' to test user discernment.

According to a Reddit post on r/SMRTRabak, a user confessed to impersonating 'well known celebrity Aroace Music' as part of a 'social experiment'. The user stated they 'asked Ai to generate posts that are will go viral here based on his posts' to see if users would 'upvote any slop so long as they agree with it'. The user expressed hope that r/SMRTRabak users would 'be more mindful of what they read on here, and think twice that something maybe ai generated slop'.

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